Hi,
Before I go into detail, is there any way to force a button to get that
dotted box on it that shows it's in focus? Just saying btn1.Focus(); isn't
working for me. Btn1 is definitely the thing being focused on, but you
wouldn't know by just looking at it. And it seems that the only way to get a
button to show highlight is to Tab into it.
So, the weird details...
Say I put a custom button on my form (and gave it tabstop 1). I then add a
textbox with tabstop 2. And finally another button (tabstop 3). If I click in
the textbox and press the Tab key, the 2nd button gets that dotted line, no
problem. Same goes if I press Shift-Tab (the 1st button shows focus). I made
the textbox so that it recognizes if the up or down keys are hit, so when I'm
in the textbox and press the up key, I say:
if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Up){SendKe ys.Send("+{Tab} ");}
and have no problem here either - the first button shows focus.
But if down is pressed:
if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Down){Send Keys.Send("{Tab }");}
it freaks out and everything freezes so that I have to open task manager to
close it down.
One other thing - if a button has been highlighted (tabbed into) once,
saying just btn1.Focus(); is enough. But, of course, I can't be sure that tab
will always be pressed.
Hope this makes sense.
Thanks for any help on this!
Mel
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When you say "custom button" are you certain that this control follows the
design rules for UI feedback?
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"melanieab" <me*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
news:A0******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... Hi,
Before I go into detail, is there any way to force a button to get that
dotted box on it that shows it's in focus? Just saying btn1.Focus(); isn't
working for me. Btn1 is definitely the thing being focused on, but you
wouldn't know by just looking at it. And it seems that the only way to get
a
button to show highlight is to Tab into it.
So, the weird details...
Say I put a custom button on my form (and gave it tabstop 1). I then add a
textbox with tabstop 2. And finally another button (tabstop 3). If I click
in
the textbox and press the Tab key, the 2nd button gets that dotted line,
no
problem. Same goes if I press Shift-Tab (the 1st button shows focus). I
made
the textbox so that it recognizes if the up or down keys are hit, so when
I'm
in the textbox and press the up key, I say:
if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Up){SendKe ys.Send("+{Tab} ");}
and have no problem here either - the first button shows focus.
But if down is pressed:
if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Down){Send Keys.Send("{Tab }");}
it freaks out and everything freezes so that I have to open task manager
to
close it down.
One other thing - if a button has been highlighted (tabbed into) once,
saying just btn1.Focus(); is enough. But, of course, I can't be sure that
tab
will always be pressed.
Hope this makes sense.
Thanks for any help on this!
Mel
Hi!
I followed the example to create a toggle button in the Microsoft Visual C#
..Net Step By Step version 2003 book - Chapter 23 "Creating GUI Components"
(page 427), so I'm guessing I followed the rules (I'm still kind of new and
don't know all the rules yet). After I asked the question, I did realize
that my button is really descended from a CheckBox, but I don't think that
would make any difference (?), and I still don't think it would explain the
strange behavior of accepting sending a +Tab but not a Tab (I'm trying to
work around another strange behavior at the moment that's a result of these
'buttons'). Anyway, thanks very much for trying to help me with this!
Cheers,
Mel
"Bob Powell [MVP]" wrote: When you say "custom button" are you certain that this control follows the
design rules for UI feedback?
--
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Visual C#, System.Drawing
Ramuseco Limited .NET consulting
http://www.ramuseco.com
Find great Windows Forms articles in Windows Forms Tips and Tricks
http://www.bobpowell.net/tipstricks.htm
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